Illicit Industries and China's Shadow Economy: Challenges and Prospects for Global Governance and Human Security

ISBN-13: 9780367582821 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 184 str.

Victor Teo; Sungwon Yoon

Opis

This book considers a wide range of illicit industries in China, exploring what drives such activities, why consumers tolerate them, how attempts to regulate them are implemented and how such regulation is resisted.

Spis treści

1. Illicit Industries and China’s Shadow Economy: Challenges and Prospects for Global Governance and Human Security,

2. Human Smuggling: The Case of Illegal Chinese Immigrants in the United States,

3. Black market trade of human organs in China and its implications for global governance,

4. China’s Food Safety Problems and Establishment of Dual Economy: A Case of Vegetables,

5. Deadly Alchemists: Implications of the Illicit Pharmaceutical Industry in China for Human and Health Security,

6. The Smuggling of Animal Parts in Chinese Medicine: The Pangolin trade between China and Southeast Asia,

7. Profits Downstream, Unsustainability Upstream: Illegal Logging and Siamese Rosewood Trade in the Greater Mekong Basin (GMB),

8. Shadow Banking & Cross Border Capital Flows in China: A Macro-Micro Survey

O autorze

Victor Teo is an Assistant Professor at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong

Sungwon Yoon is an Assistant Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore